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The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus

by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

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Christmas storiesSanta Claus -- Juvenile fiction

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  1. 01Front matter~1 min
  2. 021. Burzee~2 min
  3. 032. The Child of the Forest~9 min
  4. 043. The Adoption~3 min
  5. 054. Claus~7 min
  6. 065. The Master Woodsman~4 min
  7. 076. Claus Discovers Humanity~7 min
  8. 087. Claus Leaves the Forest~6 min
  9. 091. The Laughing Valley~10 min
  10. 102. How Claus Made the First Toy~8 min
  11. 113. How the Ryls Colored the Toys~13 min
  12. 124. How Little Mayrie Became Frightened~8 min
  13. 135. How Bessie Blithesome Came to the Laughing Valley~12 min
  14. 146. The Wickedness of the Awgwas~12 min
  15. 157. The Great Battle Between Good and Evil~11 min
  16. 168. The First Journey with the Reindeer~16 min
  17. 179. "Santa Claus!"~3 min
  18. 1810. Christmas Eve~13 min
  19. 1911. How the First Stockings Were Hung by the Chimneys~12 min
  20. 2012. The First Christmas Tree~7 min
  21. 211. The Mantle of Immortality~15 min
  22. 222. When the World Grew Old~6 min
  23. 233. The Deputies of Santa Claus~11 min

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Have you heard of the great Forest of Burzee? Nurse used to sing of it when I was a child. She sang of the big tree-trunks, standing close together, with their roots intertwining below the earth and their branches intertwining above it; of their rough coating of bark and queer, gnarled limbs; of the bushy foliage that roofed the entire forest, save where the sunbeams found a path through which to touch the ground in little spots and to cast weird and curious shadows over the mosses, the lichens and the drifts of dried leaves. The Forest of Burzee is mighty and grand and awesome to those who steal beneath its shade. Coming from the sunlit meadows into its mazes it seems at first gloomy, then pleasant, and afterward filled with never-ending delights.

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